diameter is 0.7 mm, which is the biggest you'll want. it seems to include flux. it seems to be designed for electronics. (not all kind of soldering is for that, and you don't want some of the more aggressive kinds of flux.) and it's 63/37.

(CF rant) yeah, we have the same madness here. well, so far none of them has failed. but then, since i know that they don't like cycling, i keep the important ones on all night. it may still save energy ;-)

i solder like this: put flux on the target area, place component, put a drop of solder on the iron, hold down the component, then solder. so the solder stays on the iron for a bit of time, giving the flux time to disappear

and while finding a particular solder is like finding a certain kind of flour, you just need to specify the type and grinding and no much other differences between flours, finding a good flux is like finding a tasty cheese since you simply can't go by the composition or other descriptions of physical properties

wpwrak: when you want to make sure "the internet" works while I'm away, would you please keep an eye on ht-tp://monitor.maemo.org/ganglia and may I forward mails like "** PROBLEM Service Alert: firewall-b.maemo.org/SSH is CRITICAL **" to you?

fortunately the design of heekscnc (heekscad generates a python script with geometry and tools, python script calls a C lib which generates toolpaths, then outputs customized gcode) makes it vary easy to decouple it from heekscnc

the more worn a bit is, the more burr you get and the more unwanted forces it applies to the piece. before i broke my 0.8 mm endmill, it had produced considerable burr (it's been in use for a good while, mainly cutting pcbs, which are nasty)

the endmill set may be a bit fragile. normally, the length of the cutting part is a function of the diameter. if it gets very long and thin, it'll break more easily. but okay, you can always compensate by going very slowly

yeah, same here. there's virtually nothing. there's a bunch of jeweler's tools shops so i tried these. all i had at the end of the day was another 1/8 in endmill. a weird piece, something like 4-flute. but works :) i keep it as a backup

the really cheap ones probably work like this: a factory uses new endmills. they have high standards, so as soon as the mills begin to perform less than perfectly, they replace them. but the mills are still good for a lot more use, you just wouldn't get perfect cuts. for PCBs and such, you can tolerate quite a lot of imperfection. e.g., you just scrape off the burr without even thinking much of it.

In February 2003, the non-peer reviewed New Scientist wrote about the possibility of an IGE-powered airplane, a variant on nuclear propulsion.[8] The idea was to utilize 178m2Hf (presumably due to its high energy to weight ratio) which would be triggered to release gamma rays that would heat air in a chamber for jet propulsion."

somehow you had to increase the number of photon-nukleus "quantum collisions" significantly above what happens in reactor during charging the material and the natural decay that happens there all the time

even when you assume the number of excited7charged atoms in that red mercury was next to 100% (which is impossible), it still is a pretty short distance that your igniting photon can travel through the booster medium

down here the only conversation that people love to talk is about house prices and how "rich" they are as they have BIG debts and have a house....if you don't have a house or you renting you are considered "poor" i'm one of those that never wants to buy in this crazy environment

(apartment) i think i can compete with that ;-) triplex, 3 bedrooms, living room, large kitchen, two terraces, one large bathroom, one small bathroom, one toilet, two balconies, one parking space. bought it for i think USD 120k + fees and taxes. had to put some ~20k into renovating, though.